The Monitor's View:
“A survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10 Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform this fall, it needs to take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.” ---- Christian Science Monitor

Rep. Robert Aderholt says delay on federal immigration program in Alabama is due to politics

WASHINGTON -- An Alabama congressman said Tuesday that an apparent delay in extending a federal illegal immigration program statewide is a politically driven response to the state's controversial immigration crackdown.
Secure Communities, which uses local law enforcement to help identify illegal immigrants with criminal records, is working in 37 Alabama counties, missing a deadline that it be in all 67 by the end of 2011.
The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency program allows county jailers to share the fingerprints of people booked into jail with federal immigration enforcement officials. If the federal agencies find a match of someone without legal status and with a history of crime, especially violence, they'll be targeted for deportation.
The county-by-county deployment of the program, which involves the ability to electronically transmit fingerprints, began last year in Alabama.
But Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, said Department of Homeland Security officials told him in a Jan. 5 email that it would not go statewide because of the controversy over Alabama's immigration law, which the federal government is challenging in court.
"The decision to delay deployment in Alabama, a state that enacted its own immigration enforcement law due to concerns about the federal government's failure to enforce the law, is incomprehensible and gives additional evidence to those very concerns," Aderholt wrote in a Tuesday letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Between April and July, 37 counties in Alabama activated their Secure Communities programs. Since July 12, no more counties have been added, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The Alabama program has resulted in 119 criminally convicted illegal immigrants being removed from the U.S. Some of the counties already participating are Jefferson, Shelby and Mobile counties, according to ICE.
But a spokeswoman for ICE on Tuesday did not give a reason for the delay and said the agency still was working toward bringing Alabama counties online.
"ICE continues to work with its law enforcement partners in Alabama and across the country to responsibly and effectively implement this federal information sharing capability and plans to reach complete nationwide activation by the end of 2013," said Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman for ICE.
Aderholt, who has monitored Secure Communities as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that sets the budget for DHS, inquired about the delay in Alabama, and his staff received an email that specifically mentioned Alabama's immigration law.
Part of the email was provided by Aderholt's office and reads, "While these provisions of Alabama's state immigration enforcement law, which conflict with ICE's immigration enforcement policies and programs, remain the subject of litigation, ICE does not believe it is appropriate to expand deployment of Secure Communities .¤.¤. in Alabama."
The U.S. Department of Justice is leading a court challenge of Alabama's immigration law as an intrusion on the federal government's role to set and enforce federal immigration policy. Napolitano has told Congress that her agency will not cooperate in the enforcement of Alabama's law, which requires local police and sheriffs to identify illegal immigrants and report them to ICE, regardless of their criminal history. DHS policy under President Barack Obama is to prioritize deportations, focusing first on those who have broken other laws.
Spencer Collier, director of the Alabama Department of Homeland Security, said he was assured two weeks ago by the DHS assistant secretary for the office of governmental affairs, Betty Markey, that the delay in Alabama was strictly for budget reasons.
"She assured me that all 67 counties would be brought up to speed, but that it was taking longer and they were not going to make the December deadline," Collier said. "She didn't say anything about the immigration law .¤.¤. and I have not heard from any of the sheriffs that they were slowing the process down."
The sheriff's office in Etowah County already had the digital fingerprint scanner in place and has been participating in Secure Communities since April. Sending the data to ICE officials has not had any additional costs, according to spokeswoman Natalie Barton.

CALIFORNIA LAWYER RICHARD HILARY GIBSON SPENDS 20 HOURS A DAY ON CRAIGSLIST STALKING POSTERS, HARASSING POSTERS AND DELETING ALL POSTS THAT ARE NOT HIS OWN.

ON THIS DATE GIBSON OVERRODE FLAGGING AND DELETED THREE POSTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS ONLY ABOUT A DOZEN OR SO POSTS REMAIN UP. ALL GIBSON'S.

IN FACT, GIBSON HAS STALKED AND COMMANDEERED ALL CL POLITICS AND RANTS FORUMS AROUND THE NATION. IF GIBSON CAN'T FLAG HARASS POSTERS OFF CL, HE CONTACTS THEM TO OBTAIN PERSONAL INFO, IP ADDRESSES, OR HOME ADDRESS WHICH HE USES TO EXPOSE PEOPLE'S PROVACY ON CL. HE'S BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS, AND CL, FULLY AWARE OF THIS PREDATORY MONSTER, HAD CONDONED GIBSON'S USE OF THIS PLATFORM FOR HIS STALKING, FLAG HARASSMENT AND HATE CRIMES!

CRAIGSLIST APPARENTLY FEELS THEIR PROFIT REVENUES WOULD DIMINISH IF GIBSON MARKETED HIS FLAGGING OVERRIDE DEVICE, SO C.E.O. JIM BUCKMASTER APPEASES GIBSON'S PSYCHOTIC NEED TO HARASS BY HANDING OVER ALL OF CL POLITICS FORUMS.

FIVE YEARS AGO, CL POLITICS LOS ANGLES WOULD HAVE HAD ABOUT 200 POSTS A DAY. AFTER FIVE YEARS OF GIBSON'S STALKING AND FLAG HARASSMENT, THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE PER DAY.

BOSTON POLITICS NOW HAS ABOUT 5 POSTS A WEEK. ALL GIBSON'S.

100% OF ALL POSTS ON CL S.F. ARE GIBSON'S.

99% OF ALL POSTS ON CL RANTS S.F. and L.A. ARE GIBSON'S SICK RANTINGS.

JAN 23-2012

GIBSON CONTROLS CL LOS ANGELES POLITICS FORUM.

BY 10:AM THERE WERE ONLY A FEW POSTS UP FOR THE LAST FEW
DAYS. ALL WERE GIBSON’S.

ON THIS DA , BEFORE 10:AM, GIBSON HAD DELETED THREE (3)
POSTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

OBAMA HAS FILLED HIS
ADMINSTRATION WITH PRIMARILY LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS.

Here’s his Sec. Labor, HILDA
SOLIS:

While in Congress, she
opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien
benefits (including driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts), embraced
sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security
officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass
amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro-illegal alien worker organizing movement
in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty-supporting Big Labor groups
led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol
Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer-funded advertising and outreach campaign
to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:

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Michelle Malkin

The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor

President
Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers.
What you need to know is that this longtime open-borders sympathizer has always
had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter
registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted
to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or
not."

That's
right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot
about our immigration laws -- or about the fundamental distinction between
those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who
didn't.

While in Congress, she
opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien
benefits (including driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts), embraced
sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials
to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis
was steeped in the pro-illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern
California and was buoyed by amnesty-supporting Big Labor groups led by the
Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill
firestorm over her new taxpayer-funded advertising and outreach campaign to
illegal aliens regarding fair wages:

"I'm
here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this
department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay --
especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often
dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we
will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you
can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections
work for you."

To be
sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that
hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and
punishment. But it's the timing, tone-deafness and underlying blanket amnesty
agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and
their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.

With
double-digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's
border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government
field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign?
(Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive
immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract
them.)

Unfortunately,
the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on
workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California,
Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens
in their state workers' compensation plans -- and more than a dozen other
states implicitly cover them.

Solis'
public service announcement comes on the heels of little-noticed but far more
troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier
this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language
publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going
out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup
efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and
protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of
migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that
her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers
were legal.

No word
yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are
legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.

*

WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE and PRISON SYSTEMS!

“Mexico’s government has
provided its nationals with valuable tools to help them cross the border safely
but Dominguez is the first American resident, with a salary provided by U.S.
taxpayers, to openly promote such a gadget. A few years ago Mexican officials
published a 32-page booklet (Guia Del Migrante Mexicano) with safety
tips for border crossers and distributed hand-held satellite devices to ensure
the violators complete their journey safely.”

Hundreds
of readers responded with emails to the piece “California: America’s first
failed state” published January 19, 2012, NWV. Many felt betrayed by the video
of the girl who said, “I don’t know
why anyone would want to work in America” as she referred to how much money any
woman could make by becoming a baby factory.

One
Australian visiting California replied that California was still a nice place
to live. Eric Claus wrote, “I think Frosty's heart is in the right place but
the hyperbole in this rant is way over the top. I'm in California now. There
are lots of problems some caused by population, some not, but illegal
immigrants don't flock to "failed states" by the millions. People
come here because it is a really nice place to live. It could certainly be
better, but by writing things like this Frosty puts himself in the fringe of
people who want to see a more sustainable world. It's great to be enthusiastic
but is this about solving a problem or is it about making yourself feel good
because you are really striking a blow for what is right. It feels like the
latter to me.”

I
replied to his reply by writing to a major Australian website that shows how
Australia is also being overrun by immigration. I said, “This is not about
heart and it’s not about bias. I am not on the fringe. I write about facts. (I
quoted 10 sources for the points I made in the column.) Yes, illegal aliens do
flood into California because it’s better than the sheer misery of living and
working for $5.00 a day in Mexico. I have traveled all over Mexico. No
Australian can imagine the poverty of Mexico. I’m 65 years old, so I don’t need
to exaggerate or add drama. Today,
with mass immigration, California is being changed into a Mexican-Korean-Middle
Eastern-Ethiopian-Congo-Salvadorian-Brazillian-Chinese-Vietnamese-India
polyglot of people who have immigrated here but do not mesh nor do they
assimilate into American society. California pays out $10.2 billion annually to
take care of illegal aliens from education to food to housing to medical to
incarceration. Their poverty paralyzes California.

“If
Claus is visiting California now, he is stuck in the 15 hour daily gridlock
traffic that defines Los Angeles, San Francisco and other enormous cities. He’s
breathing toxic air from 38 million people exhausting their homes, electric
plants and auto emissions into the air. He’s drinking from plastic water
bottles because so much of California’s tap water suffers from contamination. He cannot help but be warned not to go
deep into Los Angeles where entire sections of the city are owned by gangs. He
would not be able to ask directions because the immigrants don’t speak English
and don’t like you because you do speak English. If he digs deeper into
lower California, he will see the tent cities and human waste piling up all
over the place. He will see entire families living out of “storage lockers”. If
he sent his kids to California’s schools, they would not reach 18 with a decent
education. Ethnic clashes in high schools are a daily part of the multicultural
nightmare.”

A
lady named Ruth said, “I moved to California in 1955. It was a veritable
paradise. Jobs were plentiful. It was truly a "Laid-back" state with
perfect climate, forever fun and prosperous or so we thought. I attended
California State University Long Beach in the 1960s. Zero tuition; a $12
Student Union fee; used books returned for a full refund at semester's end.
Does anyone think education is better today at the ridiculously high costs? I
lived at the beach most of my 31 years in California. At one time, I paid $300
a month for a three-story home right on the sand; that home would now rent for
$3,000. I began seeing a horrible transition taking place as you pointed out in
massive immigration, no demands for English language skills, and everyone
jumping on the welfare bandwagon. As prices began skyrocketing (why not, since
the government will pay for everything?), I saw the writing on the wall, so I
left California in 1986. The last time I visited the state, I was appalled at
the trash and filth along the streets and highways, and the rundown conditions
everywhere. It's like a plague, I'm afraid it is spreading nationwide, and we shall
all suffer a horrible demise because of it. Stop the immigration now! Legal and
illegal!”

Referring
to the welfare queen video, Canadian Wayne said, “I'm at a loss to know how to
process this girl's attitude. Is she to blame for what she's doing? If someone
- the government - the policy/law makers are handing out candy, who in their
right mind wouldn't stand in line to receive their share? I live in Canada, and
we do many stupid things here too, but this is the mighty United States of
America - how can your lawmakers allow this to happen? It's all very sad. I
believe this is the sort of thing that will cause the total collapse of our
governments.”

Jack
said, “I have never read any of your articles before; but having seen the
latest on California, I need to say, 'I certainly wish I could write like
that'. I like the article: well said. America is in for a lot more trouble than
they can even speculate. There are tough times coming soon. Therefore, I look
forward to not being here when that happens. I need to finish my autobiography
and then come what may.”

Steven
said, “I receive NewsWithViews and read your article early this morning. I
really do not comment much on NWV articles but in this case I wanted to leave
you with a couple of thoughts. I understand your main thrust on immigration but
please consider this:

“First, most anyone with a
pulse has taken a position on illegal immigration, the truth is that probably
70% of Americans clearly understand it is a danger to our very existence. The remaining 25-30% of
those who approve of this immigration fiasco are in reality the 20% hard left
and maybe only 10% or so who are not. The
open borders crowd is entrenched in the political and educational system and
generates propaganda supporting this invasion.I realize legal
immigrants are an issue and part of your article, but illegals are driving the
explosion by various means and in my mind are first priority.

“The narrative has changed. People do not talk
anymore about if illegals are a problem, people know it. I hope that those with
a voice such as yourself, will drive the next phase, and that is let's do
something about it. Get rid of
freebies from the government and illegals will leave. Make hiring illegals
unwelcome everywhere and watch the positive results as they leave in mass.
I hope you and others like yourself will be an inspiration to others to get the
job started and rolling. We have here in Arizona, small baby steps, but a
start. Please keep up the good fight.”

One
other reader said that Americans need to get ready for “impact” as to the
consequences of long term mass immigration. With another 75 million to be added
by 2035—impact needs another term to describe what’s going to “hit” this
country.

Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews top
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